Urban Geography
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Course Introduction
Urban Geography explores the spatial dimensions of cities and metropolitan regions, examining how urban areas develop, function, and shape the lives of their inhabitants. The course investigates the historical evolution of cities, patterns of urban growth, land use, economic activity, housing, transportation, and social dynamics within urban environments. Students will analyze the impacts of globalization, migration, and policy on urbanization processes, while also considering issues such as segregation, inequality, gentrification, and sustainability. Through case studies and practical examples, the course provides a comprehensive understanding of the complex forces driving urban change and their implications for future city development.
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Human Geography Places and Regions in Global Context Updated 5th Canadian Edition by Paul
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Chapter 1: Geography Matters
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Q1) Which type of map projection is best for representing cultural,demographic,and economic data?
A) Peters projection
B) Robinson projection
C) Mollweide projection
D) Dymaxion projection
E) Mercator projection
Answer: C
Q2) Which line indicates the equator?
Answer: A
Q3) The prime meridian cuts through A) Greenwich, England.
B) Quito, Ecuador.
Answer: A
Q4) Generally,people try to maximize the overall utility of a location.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q5) Which line indicates the prime meridian?
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: The Changing Global Context
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Q1) World hegemons
A)Periphery
B)Core
C)Semiperiphery
Answer: B
Q2) Most colonies produced a wide range of agricultural,manufactured and consumer products.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Most of the world's remaining external arenas are above the Arctic Circle and in Siberia.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Japan has been a member of the core since the beginning of the world-system.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Population Geography
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Q1) From an age-sex pyramid for Canada (2001),it is clear that the largest age group is ________ years old.
A) 0-15
B) 15-35
C) 35-55
D) 55-75
E) 40-44
Answer: E
Q2) The baby bust refers to the cohort(s)immediately ________ the baby boomers.
A) before
B) after
Answer: B
Q3) westward expansion of Canada
A)internal forced migration
B)international forced migration
C)diaspora
D)internal voluntary migration
E)international voluntary migration
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: People and Nature
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Q1) Which among the following animals introduced in the New World had the most significant environmental impact?
A) the ox
B) the cow
C) the horse
D) the donkey
E) the goat
Q2) Prior to the Colombian Exchange,the only large domestic animals in the Americas used for work/protein were
A) dogs.
B) dogs and llamas.
C) dogs, llamas and horses.
D) dogs, llamas, horses, and oxen.
E) dogs, llamas, horses, oxen and pigs.
Q3) This country is the biggest producer of wind energy worldwide.
A) India
B) Iceland
C) the United States
D) China
E) Germany
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Chapter 5: Cultural Geographies
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Q1) Which of the following terms is most likely to encompass the largest number of languages?
A) language family
B) language branch
C) language group
D) language dialect
E) language collective
Q2) Hinduism
A)evolved from Hinduism
B)lowlands in the subcontinent of India
C)first monotheistic religion
D)means "submission"
E)has the greatest number of converts in the core countries
F)based on a saviour who lived, died, and was resurrected
Q3) The same cultural trait can be found in different cultural regions.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How have the forces and factors of globalization influenced language?
Q5) Use Chinatowns and cultural parades as examples in an essay about ethnicity,space,and place.
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Chapter 6: Interpreting Places and Landscapes
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Q1) In the above isoline map,the darkest shadings illustrate ________ for cities in the United States,as expressed by architecture students at Virginia Tech in 1996.
A) prime agricultural land
B) collective preferences
C) obesity rates
D) green space
E) areas of smart growth
Q2) the embedding of symbols in the landscape of St.Jacobs,Ontario letting visitors know that they have come to "Mennonite Country"
A)topophilia
B)proxemics
C)ethology
D)semiotics
Q3) Within one place,different spaces can send different messages to different people.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Explain the humanistic approach in geography,and briefly present its strengths and weaknesses.
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Chapter 7: Geographies of Economic Development
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Q1) The countries of which two capitals share a border?
A) Helsinki & Oslo
B) Luanda & Windhoek
C) Taipei & Sana
D) Phnom Penh & Taipei
E) Oslo & Luanda
Q2) This periphery country won high praise for having protected an exceptional share of its territory in biosphere and wildlife preserves.
A) Costa Rica
B) Kenya
C) Guatemala
D) French Guiana
E) Zimbabwe
Q3) A country's level of economic development is most commonly measured by A) GDP and GNI.
B) HDI and GEI.
Q4) Describe in an essay the spiral of deindustrialization,as experienced by many of the traditional manufacturing regions of Europe and North America during the 1960s,1970s,and 1980s.
Q5) Identify and describe the purpose of maquiladoras.
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Chapter 8: Food and Agriculture
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Q1) swidden (slash and burn)
A)intensive subsistence
B)shifting cultivation
C)pastoral nomadism
Q2) The Green Revolution
A) has been an unqualified success.
B) began with the peace and environmental movement of the 1960s.
C) has led to only slight increases in crop yields.
D) has been most successful in Africa.
E) None of the above is true.
Q3) Subsistence agriculture is most common in A) Asia.
B) Europe.
C) Australia.
D) North America.
E) the Middle East.
Q4) Why is the genetically modified organism (GMO)debate so contentious?
Q5) What is the difference between food security and food sovereignty?
Q6) Discuss how agribusiness through the creation of food chains has influenced the agro-food system.
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Chapter 9: Political Geographies
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Q1) In both federal and unitary states,power is dispersed throughout the country.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What is the domino theory and how was it applied by the United States?
Q3) Ethnic cleansing as a nation-state building project is linked with the geographic strategy that
A) alters the people to fit the space.
B) alters the space to fit the people.
C) repopulates regions with more ethnically homogenized peoples.
D) purifies the racial characteristics of its dominant members.
E) expands the boundaries of the state to include all co-nationals.
Q4) The International Criminal Court (ICC)was established by the United Nations in 1998 to
A) protect human rights.
B) promote free trade.
Q5) Straight-line boundaries between states suggest that the boundary was based on natural features,such as rivers or mountains.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What does it mean to say that "a nation is an imagined community"?
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Chapter 10: Urbanization
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Q1) The capital of country #62 is
A) Seoul.
B) Ping Pong.
C) Ankara.
D) Guatemala City.
E) Bangkok.
Q2) Which pair of countries share a continent?
A) Belgium & Poland
B) South Korea & Sweden
C) Sweden & the Philippines
D) Turkey & Guatemala
E) Guatemala & the Philippines
Q3) Cities like Rio de Janeiro,Accra,Buenos Aires,Kolkata and other colonial cities emerged and grew due to A) trade.
B) industrialization.
C) tourism.
D) war.
E) the rank-size rule.
Q4) What is reurbanization and what factors are driving this process in Canada?
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Chapter 11: City Spaces: Urban Structure
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Q1) The dominant feature of a traditional Islamic city is
A) the sultan's palace.
B) the principal mosque, the Jami.
C) the main marketplace, the suq.
D) the Kasbah.
E) the cemetery.
Q2) The informal sector in the periphery subsidizes products for consumers in the core.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The capital of country #7 is
A) Bratislava.
B) Prague.
C) Budapest.
D) Zagreb.
E) Bucharest.
Q4) Most European cities are densely populated.
A)True
B)False
Q5) middle-income residential
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